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Samuel Clayton Hepworth ★
(William, Margaret) was born circa 1809
in England MI3,
UN13 to parents who
were also born in England UN13. The
1860 and 1870 censuses indicated that he was born about 1810. Justin E. Wilder
stated that Samuel was born on May 16, 1809 at Morley, Yorkshire, England WI1, and Anne Hepworth, Samuel’s sister,
indicated that his birthday was May 16 HU1. Her letter, dated May 31, 1845, stated,
“Your… letter reached us on the 16th
just (your birthday)” HU1. A
birth record of a Samuel Hepworth, who was almost certainly Samuel Clayton
Hepworth, stated that he was baptized on June 11, 1809 in Snaith, York, England,
and that his father’s name was William EN4.
For reference, Morley is about twenty-seven miles west of Snaith.
It is unclear if he was the Samuel Hepworth who married Ann
Hepworth on July 9, 1832 in Snaith, Yorkshire (another record which was dated
June 24, 1832 was probably the marriage bond) EN6. A ship
manifest for the Ocmulgee, captained by Thomas L. Leavitt, which sailed
from Liverpool and arrived in New York on August 9, 1838, listed a steerage
passenger named Samuel Epworth, age twenty-eight, who was a tailor NE17. In very small script below his name, another person with the
surname of Epworth was listed who was also a tailor and was twenty-eight years
old NE17; this person’s name seems to read “Ann”. Those raised in
Yorkshire often drop the “h” sound in words which begin with that letter, and
so the person who wrote the ledger may have written Samuel’s surname as he
heard it pronounced. This individual, Samuel Epworth, may or may not have been
Samuel C. Hepworth, for while the age, occupation, and country of birth match,
and the names are similar, the year in which Samuel departed for America is
unknown. The name “Samuel Hepworth” was written on a ship manifest dated
April 27, 1840 NE17. The ship, which
departed from Liverpool and arrived at the Port of New York, was called the United States and the shipmaster was
Alexander Britten NE17.
The manifest described Samuel Hepworth as a thirty-year-old merchant from the
United States NE17.
Justin E. Wilder
offered a range of years for his immigration, from 1835 until 1840, and stated
that he arrived with his brother, Joseph, and settled in Buffalo, Erie County,
New York, where he married Martha Holleywood on October 31, 1841 WI1. Marriage records for that city were not
filed until 1877. A notation at the bottom of the second page in the
November 3, 1841 edition of the Commercial
Advertiser and Journal for Buffalo, New York stated, “MARRIED, In this
city, on the 23d ult., by Rev. Mr. Woodworth, Mr. S. C. HEPWORTH and Miss
MARTHA HOLLYWOOD, both of this city” MA45. This indicates that their wedding
occurred on October 23, 1841.
He was listed in the 1844 Buffalo City Directory as “Hepworth
Samuel. C tailor 131 Ellicott” WA28, and as again as a tailor on the corner of Niagara and Eagle
streets in the 1847 and 1848 Buffalo directories TH39, TH40.
Eagle St. meets Niagara St. on an angle at the southeast corner of the Niagara
town square, and Ellicott St. is about three blocks east of that intersection.
Their son, Samuel H., was born about 1844 in New York UN10, UN12 but in 1870
(when he lived in Volinia Township, Cass County, Michigan, with his wife,
Josephine and his brother, Henry C.) and in 1880 (when he lived in Burlingame
Township, Osage County, Kansas with Josephine and his family), he stated that
he was born in Canada. Justin E. Wilder also stated that Samuel Holliwood
Hepworth, who married Josephine Lewellyn, was born in Canada on January 26,
1844 WI1. If this is correct, then the Hepworth family resided in Canada early in
1844, but they moved to New York later in 1844, because their first son,
William Henry, died in that state and that year at age two and a half WI1. Samuel and
Martha’s daughter, Martha Ann, was born in 1845 in Buffalo, New York MI3,
WI1. Utilizing the birth locations and the ages of Henry C. and Mary, as
indicated on the 1850 and 1860 censuses, it is possible to determine that the
Hepworth family resided in New York until sometime after the birth of Henry C.
but moved to Michigan by the end of 1849. Justin E. Wilder stated that Henry Clayton was born on March 8,
1848 in Buffalo WI1. At the time of the 1850 census, Mary,
the next child, was six months old and she was born in Michigan, and Justin
Wilder placed her birthdate in Adrian, Michigan, on December 1, 1849 WI1.
According to his
wife’s death certificate and the “Return of Deaths in the County of Kalamazoo” MI3, he was a tailor, but most census records
state that he was a farmer. In 1850, however, he was a tailor. According to his
death certificate, Samuel died at age eighty-two on April 20, 1891 in Prairie
Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. His death was caused by influenza (“Relapse
of… La Grippe”) MI3. His parents’ names were not recorded on
his death certificate or the “Return of Deaths in the County of Kalamazoo” MI3, which probably indicates that Martha had
forgotten their names. According to a Local History Librarian at the Kalamazoo
Public Library, a copy of his obituary was not located in the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Samuel
and his brother, Joseph, were the recipients of letters which were written by
their sister, Anne Hepworth of Snaith, on May 31, 1845 HU1. They were evidently
sent in the same envelope or package. Those letters, in addition to another written
by “S.C. Hepworth” on August 19, 1884 to Henry and Carrie, were transcribed by
Kathy Munsel, and have been reproduced here with her permission, and the
permission of William Hubbell, whose mother owns the letters HU1:
Snaith,
May 31st 1845
My dear
Brother & Sister Samuel,
Your
pleasing yet sorrowful letter reached us on the 16th just (your birthday). We
had been talking about you that morning and longing and wishing for a letter
from you. We little thought a month before, while following to the grave the
remains of dear little Emma the youngest of brother Wms children, that you had
but just before had a similar trial. We deeply sympathize with you in your
loss, for as such you would feel it but your loss is his eternal gain. There is
one consoling reflection left you, it is this, he is free, will not return to
you but you will go to him. For some time before we received your letter, we
felt impressed with an idea that some one of the children was dead. I cannot
account for it, yet so it was. Mother thought it would be dear little Margaret
but when we saw that is was your dear little Wm Henry, we could not restrain
our feelings, yet we felt truly thankful to ask mighty God that it was not the
parent instead of the child, the Lord has in mercy, so your souls taken your
beloved son, but spared you, in order that you may be more closely united to
him, and devoted to his service. I hope you see and feel that is the case.
We
feel very thankful to hear from brother Joseph his own account of his
conversion to God, it is gladdened the heart of my dear Mother who is conscious
that she will see more of you any more in the flesh, that word farewell rings
in her ears, but she flatters herself that she will meet you all at God’s right
hand, she often prays for you all and earnestly begs that you will continue to
follow on to know the Lord. May the Lord assist you by his Holy Spirit that we
may all meet as a family unbroken in heaven, Amen, Amen.
Dear
brother Wm was ill at the same time from the affects of a severe cold, he was
several weeks laid aside from his work; through the goodness of God he is
however again restored to healthy and at the present time John and little
Dorothy are both seriously ill. They are both confined to their beds. Dorothy’s
disorder is the rheumatic fever and very ill the dear child is yet we hope she
is out of danger. I fear I cannot speak so satisfactorily of John’s state, his
medical attendant informs us that his lungs are affected so that there is
reason to fear a consumption will be the consequence err and to good to be
unkind only let us pray that these affliction’s may have there desired effect
upon the hearts of my brother and all his family.
One or
two more remarks I have to make. I shall then proceed to address a few lines to
brother Joseph. You will both and all of you read the whole of this letter I
address you separately because it is more congenial to my feelings but there is
nothing said to one but the other may read. I love you both and your dear
partners and children although some I not seen yet. I feel that affection for
them which I hope I shall always feel, and always cherish.
Sister
Dobson rejoiced with us to hear such good news from Joseph. She particularly
requested me to give her kind love to you all, it would have afforded her great
pleasure to have purchased something to send you and brother Joseph but I
begged of her not to think of such a thing as I knew she did not profess the
means of doing so. Therefore you must take the will for the deed as we say in
old England. Sister Dobson was inquiring of a person who had been some time
near Stowder if he knew anything of George Priestly your old friend and she was
informed that he is living at his native town Eastringson.
My
dear mother’s health has been very fickle during the last nine months, she is
seldom well, never, never more may she have a child to go to America, or any
other foreign clime, for I think it might kill her outright, not that she has
more affection for her children now than formerly, but it is because her body
is weaker, and she is less able to bear up under such heavy trials. Mother and
Sister Margaret unite with me in kind love to you both and your dear little
Samuel Hollywood.
From
your affectionate Sister A.H.
Dear
Brother and Sister Joseph,
I
scarcely need tell you that the receipt of your letter afforded us great
pleasure… I hope my dear Margaret and little Polly are good girls. Their aunt
Margaret has sent each of them and their dear little cousins Saml H. a necklace…
Brother Wm and his family send their love to you all… Perhaps brother Joseph
you will have the kindness to write to him if you have not already written. I
hope you will let us know if you receive this letter safe, with the small
parcel along with it. I do not doubt of your receiving it, if only Miss Barker
the bearer of it arrives safely at Buffalo, which I hope she will. Sister
Margaret and I have bought you a few things which you might find useful. There
is a slip and necklace for each of the three children, some nett and bordering
for a cape for each of our sisters, you must divide it between you. Then there
is a piece of flannel will make a shirt or singler [perhaps “singlet”] for each
of my brothers, half a dozen joiner’s pencils for brother Joseph, and one of
his old coats, we could not think of hobbling Miss Barker with any more, or
else mother would have sent both of them; then there is a pair of old trousers
of brother Samuel’s that he left when he was over… brother Henry… took a sketch
of Cowick Hall which I will send you if Miss Barker has not got all packed…
Your very affectionate Sister Anne Hepworth Snaith
Leesburgh
August 19th 1884
Through
the mercy of God we are all well
Dear
Henry & Carrie
We
received your very wellcome letter and we felt very glad to hear that you where
boath enjoying good health; for that is far better than riches;
Monday
morning
Well
it is now about two weeks since I commenced this letter, I will now try and
finish it, you wished me to send such as I can get the Marcellus paper don’t
come any moore to Leesburgh. Well we had Lina and four boys heare just a month
and Edith went back with them and since then we have heard from them and I
am glad to heare that Lina his feeling much better. Well we have had a very
singlar summer. Some very hot days and some very cold ones. The first week in
this month we had three three [sic] nights of freezing, and since then we have
had some very hot weather. Last Friday the murcury rose up to one hunderd and
twnty three, it where almost insuffirable and since then it has been up to 100
%. 10. We are now having four or five weeks drouth, and rain is needed very
much. There is a prospect of a good crop of corn. There is rather a poor crop
of apples this year. We shall perhaps have enough for our own use; John where
home on Sunday and gone back. They are working somewheare near Schoolcraft. He
has had two dollars per day and board, all summer. That is a little better than
working on a farm for 16. or 18. Dollars per month.
Walter
has been home all summer working arround, the thrashing machines are wistling
all around us, but we have nothing to thrash except about three acers of oats.
We are going to put in about eight acres of wheat this fall.
Those
day pipes that you spoke of I did not put them in there where [Here Kathy
Munsel indicated that two words were illegible] and when John and Walter
wheare [probably “were”] mailing up your boxes John grabed them and put them in
just for a little fun. John received teen dollars that you sent him, Mother and
John will write to Sml. Soone; we had old Mother Cosnor heare to see us one
afternoon and we had plenty of gab that day; I told ma that old Sarrah
Whitfield aught to have been heare and then they would have made the woods
ring;
Well I
don’t now of any thing very perticular that has transpired since you left; only
the narrow gauge road which is going from Lawton to Centervile. They have
suvayed it from Lawton to wheare John Bolch used to live from there across Jim
Andrews farm and from there to George Banties. Just a little west of Georges
house, and it strikes the North West corner of my marsh runing catering across
and comes out just west of my orchard going pretty close to Sloyers house and
then to the railroad from ther to tinkertown then to Centerville, ther is also
great talk of the grand trunk road coming from Sagano Boay to Kalamazoo, and
from there to prarie and from their to George Bowersocks from ther wes of John
Calverts house and from their to the north end of my hard land crossing the
road betwid joels house and my barn and then to the railroad so you see if all
that takes place I shall not have much farm left.
Along
with this letter I shall sent you a newspaper. Also son to Saml.
Write
when conveinant.
Give
my love to Saml and family. My kind love to you and Carrie.
From
your affectionate Father
S.C.
Hepworth
[Here
Kathy Munsel stated that, upside down, at the bottom of the letter, was the
phrase “Hurrah for Blaine”]
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1850 US Census: lived in Raisin Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.
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1860
US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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1870
US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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1880
US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Martha Holliwood ★
(Job) was born in
May 1817 in Ireland to parents who were also born in Ireland UN14, or circa 1819,
as stated in the 1880 census, which indicated that she and her parents were
born in Ireland UN13. The Oceana County, Michigan death
certificate for her son, William Bramwell Hepworth, stated that her name was
Martha Halliwell, and the Oceana County, Michigan death certificate of
her daughter, Salina E. Davis, stated that her mother, Martha Holliwood, was
born in Belfast, Ireland. The Cass County, Michigan death certificate for her
son, Walter F. Hepworth, stated that his mother’s name was Martha Hollywood of
Ireland. According to her own Kalamazoo County, Michigan death certificate, Martha’s
next of kin seemed to have been unaware of her birthdate, as this information
was replaced by the word “Unknown”, but her birth year was stated as 1819 and her father’s name was given as Job
Holleywood, who was of Ireland. Martha may
have been born on July 16, 1820, in Dublin, Ireland WI1.
Justin E. Wilder stated that Martha was the mother
of William Henry, who was born in May 1842 in Buffalo, New York, but died
in that same city in 1844, and another son named William who was born in
1847 in Buffalo but died as an infant WI1. The death of William Henry was mentioned by Anne Hepworth (see her letter
dated May 31, 1845 in the
biographical sketch for Samuel Clayton Hepworth) HU1. Martha was also the
mother of Samuel H., Martha A., Henry C., Mary G., John Fletcher, Selina E.,
William Bramwell, Walter F., and Edith M. Hepworth.
Samuel H. Hepworth was born about 1844 in New
York UN10, UN11. Samuel H. Hepworth of
Flowerfield, twenty-five, married Josephine A. Lewellen of Decatur, age
twenty-four, on January 2, 1870 in Volinia, Cass County, Michigan in a ceremony
officiated by John Kirby MI23. A gravestone for Samuel H. Hepworth at
Burlingame City Cemetery in Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas stated that he was
born in 1844 and died in 1923 (a photo of his gravestone can be located on the Find a Grave website).
Martha A. Hepworth was born about 1845 or 1846 in
New York UN10, UN11. Martha A. Davis, the married daughter of S.C. and Martha Hepworth who was
born in New York, died at the age of twenty-four in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo
County, Michigan from ulcers on November 16, 1869 MI21. The US
Federal Census Mortality Schedule for census year 1870 indicated that she died of “Ulcerated
bowels” US7, which indicates that she may have
suffered from ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. If this was the case, her
death may have occurred due to a combination of malabsorption of nutrients,
dehydration due to diarrhea, and anemia due to bleeding. Her gravestone,
located at the Flowerfield Baptist Church Cemetery in Three Rivers, St. Joseph
County, Michigan, was engraved with “Martha A. Beloved Wife of Daniel I. Davis.
Died Nov. 16, 1869. Aged 24 ys. / 2 ms.” (a photograph of this gravestone can
be found on the Find a Grave
website).
Henry C. Hepworth was born about 1847 or 1848 in
New York UN10, UN11. Henry C. Hepworth was perhaps the “Henry Clayton”, age twenty-eight of
Marcellus, Michigan, who married Caroline Conner on September 20, 1876 in
Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan MI23. Henry
Clayton stated that he was born in Buffalo, New York MI23. H.C.
Hepworth, age fifty-six of Burlingame, Kansas who was born in Buffalo, New York
to S.H. Hepworth and Martha Hollywood, married Julia E. (Gard) Van Ness of
Cassopolis, Michigan on December 25, 1904 in Volinia Township, Cass County,
Michigan MI23. Both H.C. Hepworth and Julia E. Van
Ness had been previously married one time MI23. Henry C. Hepworth, who was born in New
York about 1849 to a father born in England and a mother born in Ireland,
resided in Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas in 1920 UN16.
Mary G. Hepworth was born in the winter of
1849/1850 in Michigan UN10, UN11. Mary J. Hepworth of Flowerfield, aged twenty-two, married Oliver Davis of
Pentwater on January 13, 1872 in Pentwater, Oceana County, Michigan MI23. Mary stated
that she was born in Lenawee, Michigan, and the wedding ceremony was performed
by Erastus L. Kellogg and witnessed by David and Salina Davis MI23.
John Fletcher
Hepworth was born on January 11, 1852 in Lenawee County, Michigan JO10. The 1860 US Census record indicated that John F. Hepworth was born about
1852 in Michigan UN11. He relocated to Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas in 1877, then moved back
to Michigan in 1881, and finally settled in Kansas in 1897 JO10. John F.
Hepworth, aged forty-four of Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, the son
of Sam’l C. Hepworth and Martha “Hollawood”, married Mrs. Diania Bly, aged
forty-one, on April 6, 1896 in Marcellus, Kalamazoo County, Michigan MI23. John stated
that he was born in Lenawee County, Michigan, and R.W. Hutchinson solemnized
the wedding vows MI23. On March 17, 1909, John Fletcher
Hepworth was “stricken with paralysis on the streets”, and he died in
Burlingame, Osage County, Kansas on October 12, 1909 JO10.
Salina E. (or Celina) Hepworth
was born about 1853 or 1854 in Michigan UN11, UN12. Selina E. Hepworth, age eighteen, married Daniel I. Davis on July 31,
1871 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan in a ceremony officiated by Amos
D. Allen, Justice of the Peace MI23. The Oceana
County, Michigan death certificate for Salina E. Davis stated that she was born
on February 24, 1854 in Lenawee County, Michigan to Samuel C. Hepworth, who was
born in England, and Martha “Hallewood”, who was born in Belfast, Ireland. She
died at age sixty-one on April 5, 1915 of “appoplexy”, or a stroke, in
Pentwater, Oceana County, Michigan.
William Bramwell
Hepworth was born on September
12, 1855, in Lenawee County, Michigan, according to his Oceana County, Michigan
death certificate. Walter F. Hepworth was born about
1858 in Michigan UN11, UN12. Walter F. Hepworth, the thirty-three-year-old son of Samuel Hepworth and
Martha “Hollowood”, married Jennie Kline on May 6, 1891 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo
County, Michigan MI23. D.O French, Justice of the Peace,
officiated MI23. The Cass County, Michigan death
certificate for Walter F. Hepworth stated that he was born on November 3, 1857
to Samuel Hepworth, born in England, and Martha Hollywood, born in Ireland. He
died at age fifty-four on January 17, 1912 in Marcellus, Cass County, Michigan
from a bowel obstruction, and his death certificate stated that he was divorced
at the time of his death.
Edith M. Hepworth was born about 1861 in
Michigan UN12. She was probably
Edith M. Mounts, who was enumerated in the 1900 US Census in Red Rock, Noble
County, Oklahoma with her husband, John Mounts, and her brother, John F.
Hepworth UN14. In this census record, Edith Mounts
and John F. Hepworth were born in Michigan to a father who was born in England
and a mother who was born in Ireland, and she stated that she was born in
December 1860 UN14. Edith and John D. Mounts were
enumerated in the 1920 US Census in Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma UN16, and a gravestone with the name “Edith
Hepworth Mounts”, which stated that she was born in 1860 and died in 1927, is
located in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma (the photo of
which can be found on the Find a Grave
website).
In a letter written by a
school-aged Selina E. Hepworth (this was Martha’s daughter) to her elder
brother, “Samel”, Selina mentioned the names Edith, Martha, Mary, John,
William, and Walter; a copy of this letter has been provided HU1:
June
22th 1867
My
Dear Brother Samel
I
thought I would take my pen in hand to write you a few lines to let you all
know that I am well and hope you are the same. The rest of the family are well.
I go
to school every day. Edith learns very fast. The boys does not learn so fast as
Edith and my self. Martha was home a few weeks a go and Mary and Marth and John
went to spent their fourth at three rivers picnic. I am home at preasant. We
have a vacation in our school for two weeks. Mother and William, Walter, Edith
and my self are picking hucle berries. She went to town the day be fore
yesterday and bought me a hat. I was very pleased with it.
Sam I
went to visit Marys school she has got a very poor teacher indeed. She lets the
scholars run out doors just when they please. I dare say she does not keep no
order at all. Mary and the rest of the scholars thinks she is a very good
teacher because she lets them do just as are a mind to. She has not got so many
scholars as my teacher. There is going to a show down to the ergers next
Wednesday evining. you must not laugh at me if I do not spell just right now. I
must tell you what a good teacher I have got. She keeps very good order indeed
she does. In the morning she reads the testiment and tries to make us
understand all she reads. She has a good many scholars to teach. They all like
her. She makes get this lessons I tell you. I forgot to tell you what kind of a
show it is going to be. It is good for nothing. Mother says she will not let me
go to such a show as that is.
Now I
will tell you about the neighbors we have a little banty armstrong lives over
east. She has made a fuss most all off the neighbors the cabbage grows very
fast. Willie wishes me ask you if there is any pretty young girl out that way. Now
I must come to a close. Excuse my poor writing. So good by. Write soon. From
your sister Selina E. Hepworth. double quick.
The 1900 census recorded that Martha was able to read and write, and that
she resided with Walter, her son, but it also stated that she immigrated in
1870 and had resided in the United States for twenty-nine years, which is
illogical, because her children were born in America before that time. She was
called “Mrs. Mary Hepworth” in a newspaper article published on September 18,
1905, which indicated that she suffered from delusions, and for this reason she
was institutionalized VO1:
Because she
believes that her dead husband and father are calling her, Mrs. Mary Hepworth,
87 years of age, was admitted to the asylum from the county home today, on the
petition of M.L. Robinson, county superintendent of the poor. Mrs. Hepworth was
first sent to the county home about a year ago from Prairie Ronde. Last
February she was removed on the instigation of relatives in the northern part
of the state, but a month ago was returned to the institution by the
supervisors of a northern county. She has relatives near Prairie Ronde,
according to the poor authorities, but they are unable to support her. Her
husband and father have been dead for many years, but she persistently believes
that they are calling for her and makes strenuous attempts to locate the
voices.
According to Martha’s Kalamazoo County, Michigan death certificate, she
died at age eighty-seven on September 15, 1906 from exhaustion following the
fracture of her hip in the asylum in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The death certificate stated that she
was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Kalamazoo, and at the time of her death,
seven of her eleven children were still alive. Her occupation was a “Taylors wife”. Interestingly, the attending physician for
Martha was a woman: Dr. F. Elizabeth Barrett, whose first name was Frances; she
graduated in 1899 from the University of Michigan, according to page 351 of the
publication by the University of Michigan entitled General Catalogue of
Officers and Students, 1837-1911.
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1850
US Census: lived in Raisin Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.
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1860
US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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1870
US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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1880
US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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1900
US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.